P. Lench. "Social-democracy, its end and its successes," Leipzig (Hirzel), 1916 (preface 22.V.1916). p. 11-12. Marx allegedly knew only "mockery" toward such "well-intentioned conceptions" as disarmament, "the right of self-determination* of peoples" etc. (p. 41: "old petty-bourgeois dogmatism")
p. 15. Since the 1890s social-democracy
"gradually sheds from itself everything that
was sectarian in it"... (hopes for a 1000-year reign, etc., have fallen away, etc.).--
Everyone allegedly evaluated from an "agitational" point of view (17)...
"period of enthusiasm" of German social-democracy...
(still in 1889 with the decision on May 1).
* The word "self-determination" in the manuscript is connected by an arrow to a later note: "(p. 41; 'old petty-bourgeois dogmatism')". Ed.

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Growth of imperialism - end of 19th century - England, France, and Germany too (26-27)...
Growth of revisionism: both tendencies (both revisionism and radicalism) were necessary and useful (31-5)...
Marx and Engels were not "petty-bourgeois sentimental": "They knew that in war people barely shoot" (39)...
62-68. One ought to have voted against credits on August 4 (in reality everything would have been the same), but on Dec. 2, 1914 - for it, because the French and English violated internationalism. [Scoundrel!!] This would have reduced the international hatred toward the Germans and thereby strengthened their national cause: 69-70.
Well, what a scoundrel!!!
"The Collapse of the International" (chapter 3) - in that the French and English went to war (sic!!).
Of course, there will also be a III International, only "less utopian" (112) and more conscious of its "economic foundation"...
"The more mature a given proletariat was, the more actively it was in the war" (FROM) - this proposition of Renner's is allegedly "incorrect," because not "maturity" is the cause of behavior in England and France, but the struggle for world domination against Germany.
English workers defended their (monopolistic) exclusive position and their privileges (114-5)...
Aristocratic upper stratum (115) of the English proletariat.
To speak of international solidarity of the working class "is too early" (117), while there are exploiting nations, while there is no "equilibrium" among "powers" (116)...
and a "catalogue of pious wishes" (the right to self-determination (petty-bourgeois etc.), against annexations etc.) - is abstract, does not reckon with the concrete (121) task of the war - to break the "class domination" (114) (+122) of England, its monopoly (122), "exclusive position" (120)...

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- this is "revolution" (123 and preface), that is what the present war is!! "the rise of this" (proletarian) "class, although it occurs amid the thunder of a revolutionary world war, but without the lightning of revolutionary civil war"... (124) (author's italics). "The overthrow of English world domination" = revolution.
submarines and zeppelins (125)... "the beginning of the end" of English dominant position (126) (their role will be even stronger afterward, after the war)

131 - In the last 3-4 decades of the 19th century England
added to its colonies 15 million sq. km.
plus another 15 million*
cf. my figures
England + France + Russia = "syndicate for dividing the world" (132 and in other places) with the aim of "weltpolitisch aushungern" Germany** (132). 175: almost half of England's working class is deprived of the right to vote. "The Principle of Organization" - that is the essence of Prussian history. Hence - the strength of Germany. It is closest of all to "social revolution" (184), it is the "revolutionary principle," England is the "reactionary" one. 186: "Symbolic visit to the house of Berlin trade unions"... (the government recognized the role of trade unions). (Praise to the leaders of the trade unions) (185-6.) 188 - I allegedly called this "war socialism," and this word acquired "international right of citizenship." 195: New expenditures (4 billion a year) after the war will inevitably lead to socialization and monopolies. 198: "Democratization of the organization of the army" - from this too... = "arming the people" (204) = the meaning of "our social-democratic" program.

* See the present volume, p. 229. Ed.
** An untranslatable expression. Literally: "to starve Germany into submission in terms of world politics," i.e., to wear Germany down by depriving it of the possibility of conducting world politics. Ed.

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209-210 - - the minority in the German party is reactionary in the historical sense and therefore its fate is: "impossibilism and sectarian babble."
The social-democratic party will henceforth be less narrow; "intellectuals" and even officers will return to it (212).
The state will recognize its necessity and will admit social-democrats as officers (!!).
Social-democracy, having "raised" the workers, raised them nationally (215 in fine) ("national rise")
(= "social-democracy is the most national of all parties") (216).
Not dialectics, but sophistry.
everywhere a game with the little word "dialectics," understood in the crudest way. Not a trace of comprehensiveness. Sophistically seized upon one thing: to undermine English world domination.